THE GUARDIAN VIEW ON PROLONGING KIDULTHOOD: BRITAIN PRICES YOUNG ADULTS OUT OF INDEPENDENT LIFE | EDITORIAL

More young people live with parents as low wages, insecure work and unaffordable housing turn family support into another source of inequality In Britain, young people are expected to become independent in their 20s. Yet the UK’s economic model increasingly denies them the means to do so.

Money | The Guardian reports that more young people live with parents as low wages, insecure work and unaffordable housing turn family support into another source of inequality In Britain, young people are expected to become independent in their 20s.

The report adds: Yet the UK’s economic model increasingly denies them the means to do so.

Analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), commissioned partly for the BBC, finds that the proportion of 25-year-olds living with their parents has risen from 25% in the 1990s to 42% today.

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